i watched philadelphia and baltimore, and it looked like an episode of "oz" out in the yard of a prisonen. >> reporter: jerry austin, a rules analyst for monday night football says the labor dispute has to be solved to get the focus back where it should be. >> what's everybody talking about? they are not talking about the game, they are talking about officiating. >> the talk may have given the locked out refugees leverage in negotiations but here's the nfl leverage, the tv ratings are stratospheric. the telecasts ranked one in two in viewership among all tv programs. nfl games topped the ratings in all 30 markets the first time it happened. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> tonight, according to nfl.com, a deal has been reached between the national football league and the nfl referees union to bring the regular re r back. it is a story we will continue to follow. >> it's not good enough anymore for romney to pick up undecided voters. he has to have something to happen to someone that says they are going to vote for obama like a crisis in europe. the most bullish sign for romney has been th